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Glancing throughout history, it can look like the answer to that is “whoever controls the most people at once”.

The irony is that it has always been the people – every single individual person – who have the power. We allow ourselves to be convinced otherwise and to accept falsely that our votes count in a system designed to ignore them. Surely someone else knows better than “I” do what ...

How much easier is it to point a finger at someone else? About as easy as melting butter on a hot skillet. And just as smoothly as that pad slides around the pan, we slide into our own habits of blame.

Technically the title was “Nothing in Between”, but personally, that’s not the essence of the song that I remember.

Throughout her guitar-strumming, black boot-wearing video she was reveling in the many shades of herself. We are so complex – every one of us. We’re each both a sinner and a saint; it just depends on who you ask.

My kids and I went on an impromptu trip to The Bag Lady yesterday. It’s this really great store that sells a wide variety of spiritually uplifting informative and educational items: books, jewelry, drums, statues, feathers, crystals, stones, cards, knickknacks – a little of everything.

I love places like this because simply being there raises my energy and reconnects me spiritually – kind of ...

There are only 26 letters in the English alphabet, but combining them produces innumerable words out of which comes immeasurable expression.

That’s what language is. It takes a set number of tones, inflections, and symbols and repeats them in various combinations to convey meaning. And in all the glory, beauty, and uniqueness of that we’ve had the likes of Shakespeare, Virginia Woolf, and 50 Cent talking to us.

This weekend we went to the NC mountains for a family reunion. This was largely a distant side of my family I haven’t been in contact with for over 25 years, though a few were my immediate cousins, aunts, and my uncle that I’ve seen more regularly and recently, and of course my parents, my brother, and his wife and five kids were there.